So far the best gift I has ever received is a hand-made exquisite mini plastic boat which was given by my best friend.

到现在为止，我收到的最好礼物是我最好的朋友送给我的，一个手工制作的、非常精巧的微型塑料船。

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It's four o'clock in the morning and the 68-year-old fisherman is dragging a plastic trunk of fish carcasses across the dock toward his boat.

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If a little curiosity, imagination and time can engineer plastic bottles into a boat and that boat can then forge its way into the collective imaginations of people everywhere, then who knows what else is possible?

CNN: Opinion: Creating a sea of change

Now in 2010, David de Rothschild has built an entire boat out of plastic bottles and is sailing the Plastiki across the Pacific.

CNN: Opinion: We can help to save our seas but we must act now

The brief for the Plastiki Expedition was to design a boat made out of plastic bottles that could be sailed across the Pacific Ocean that would draw attention to the problems facing the oceans as well as the kind of solutions that we need to implement.

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